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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Miroidea » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Mirinae » Mirini » Irbisia

Genus Irbisia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
True bug, but which? - Irbisia brachycera - female Grass bug? With an earlier prompt from WonGun, I'm thinking Irbisia - Irbisia californica Irbisia ? - Irbisia ID for a little bug on barberry? - Irbisia Little bugs on Fiddleneck - Irbisia small bug - Irbisia Heteroptera - Irbisia Irbisia? - Irbisia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Miroidea
Family Miridae (Plant Bugs)
Subfamily Mirinae
Tribe Mirini
Genus Irbisia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Irbisia Reuter 1875
Numbers
24 spp. in our area(2)
Range
w. NA (west of ~100°W), one sp. ranges into ne. Asia(1)
Habitat
common in chaparral, steppe, open woodland and certain grassland situations(1)
Food
hosts: grasses (Poaceae), but late in the season the adults disperse to many other plants(1)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the black grass bug genus Irbisia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae)
M.D. Schwartz. 1984. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 92: 193-306.
2.Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 6 November, 2008 - 8:58am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 25 August, 2021 - 8:05am

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